The woman is a Hannity regular who gave Roger Stone a heads up about coming forward with this claim against Franken. She has since signed a book deal with Sinclair Broadcasting. She is also clearly on the same tour herself engaging in unwanted sexual contact.Here She is being very friendly with Al in 2009, even though…
Okay, but are you saying there is no room for nuance and distinction? We do have to show that people cannot get away with bad behavior AND that people can be redeemed/rehabilitated. There’s a fine line when oppressing the oppressor.. Some cases seem like a lost cause like Weinstein, but don’t throw the baby out with…
I tend to agree. This really surprised me. He seems like a devoted public servant and truly wants to help his constituents. There are MANY assholes in this world. He just doesn’t seem like one of them.
I’m not justifying this behavior.
Does that count for everybody or just men? I’ve read accounts that the photo was staged and that the woman in question was in on the “joke,” as it were. A photo of her grabbing the ass of a man she’s seemingly performing with has since emerged. It’s juvenile, crude behavior no matter who’s doing it. I know what it…
Franken doesn’t have the reputation of being a creep. These women worked with him at SNL and I’m sure they saw and were victims of a lot of harassment. Franken worked there in the early days of SNL. Randi Rhodes said she had her problems with him at Air America, none of them had to do with sexual harassment and she…
His hands are touching her. So yes.
I’m still trying to figure out exactly how I feel about all this - Franken screwed up and should be shamed and punished. One thing that makes me sort of understand the story is that SNL makes a joke of a massive, over-the-top makeout with tongues and wide-open mouths once or twice a season. As someone who wrote at…
I feel like really all Franken did was act juvenile and in poor taste, and this all could’ve been settled privately. The picture shows no groping, and I’m pretty certain you can’t fondle anyone through body armor. The kiss was unwanted, but uncomfortable at best, in her statement she did say “OK” to the kiss. Now, we…
I’d like to discredit her for crying her crocodile tears on national TV while conflating her one unwanted kiss with actual sexual assault. I wish I had been wearing kevlar when men grabbed my breasts or that my assaults were limited to just one kiss. As someone who has been through much worse, I have no empathy for…
UM . . . I’m reading Katy Tur’s campaign memoir of her coverage of the Trump campaign, and I JUST TODAY remembered that Trump forcibly kissed her on the cheek before a news spot, during an entire campaign of alternating between belittling “Little Katy”, calling her a terrible journalist, and trying to get…
She wasn’t sleeping. You can tell by the angle of her chin. It was a staged photo. Notice the guy next to her?
It seems clear from her story that she wanted to avoid the kiss, and that he pushed her beyond what is normally expected and what she indicated she was comfortable with.
He tried to move on her. She said “don’t ever do it again” and he didn’t.
What sort of sick fucker immediately jumps to this conclusion? “Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps? ....”
I genuinely don’t understand both the “forcibly kissed” and “groped” parts of the Franken story. The photo is goddamn stupid, but doesn’t show contact so isn’t groping - fucking insulting and demeaning, yes, but not sexual assault.
And it will have zero repercussions for him and give him zero negative press. Have fun castrating Franken for one forcible tongue kiss, as the world burns down and the conservative zombies shout about the liberal rape problem.
Franken: scripts a kiss, rehearses the kiss, scene partner objects to extent of kiss
The fallout from Harvey Weinstein being outed as a sexual predator has been more explosive than anyone could have…
Thank you! Immediate calls for resignation because of one incident that we do not have all of the details about is ridiculous. He’s not even touching her body in the photo, there’s kevlar and a two-inch plate between his fingertips and her actual boobs.
